Why Is ULead VideoEditor So Slow?

[Teshia]

Today I'm taking four MPGs and pasting them together into a 17 minute film. ULead is taking 110 minutes to create the finished product. It's doing it, but it all seems a bit too long to create a 17 minute movie. LSX MPEG encoder can join the MPGs together for me in a much shorter time, but it doesn't seem to seamlessly join the MPGs very well and cuts out frames at the join, so I don't want to use it. Am I doing something wrong in Ulead VideoEditor? I'm using version 5 in 9x on an Athlon 1.2 with 256 mb of RAM.

[EricB]

Is this a different product called Videoeditor instead of VideoStudio?

In VideoStudio, you can use an existing file as a template for settings before you start editing. Then if you select "Custom" in the save menu, then rendering time should be very fast.

If Videoeditor is a different product without this feature, I would recommend you get a copy of VideoStudio6. It is a very nice program.

[emale]

I notice that when i cut one mpeg into two, when ulead video studio renders the outputs this two output mpegs have worse quality than the original one.
What am i doing wrong?

[mats.hogberg]

emale - You're not doing anything wrong. The deterioration in quality is due to the fact that Videostudio re-encodes the video. Each decode-encode pass naturally decreases the quality.

/Mats

[emale]

So, what am i doing wrong? Is there an option to not re-encoding when i save my splitted file?

[mats.hogberg]

You're using the wrong program! VideoStudio is great, but not intended for splitting MPEGs.
See the EDIT howtos on the left for instructions on how to split an MPEG.

/Mats

[Spicuzza]

Emale, after you open VideoStudio click>New Video Project>Template from existing video>Select the video for the template>Now add the same video to the timeline. After doing your editng go to>Finish>Create Video File>Same as project settings.

Now your video WON'T be re-encoded.

The above is for VideoStudio 6.0 version 5 may be slightly different but the process is the same.

[Teshia]

Use the freeware program, TMPGEnc instead. It merges and cuts up MPGs with total ease, as I discovered this weekend. Some people claim it has trouble sync-ing sound but I haven't had problem one. In TMPGEnc, go to File -> MPEG Tools -> Merge and Edit tab, then everything you need is right there in that window for editing and pasting MPGs together without re-encoding.

[Lamont Cranston]

I am testing my memory here and I don't have VS5 installed but I believe that under preferences you have to have smart rendering checked also as well as have your template match your mpeg file to only render at the splices.